Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March1678 – 27 or 28 July1741), nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso" (The Red Priest), was a Venetian priest and Baroque music composer as well as a famous violinist. He wrote in excess of 500 concertos plus many operas, overtures, sonatas and sacred vocal works.

Robert Craft: “Are you interested in the current revival of eighteenth-century Italian masters?”
Igor Stravinsky: “Not very. Vivaldi is greatly overrated—a dull fellow who could compose the same form so many times over.”